Los profesionales de la salud y la prevención y control del tabaquismo

ABSTRACT: Tobacco consumption is one of the leading preventable causes of illness and death in the world so the health professionals have a remarkable role in its prevention and control. Medicine and nursing schools must evaluate the training in this subject in the basic curriculum, as well as provi...

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Autores:
Rodríguez Gázquez, María de los Ángeles
Tipo de recurso:
Review article
Fecha de publicación:
2010
Institución:
Universidad de Antioquia
Repositorio:
Repositorio UdeA
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/5577
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/10495/5577
Palabra clave:
Tabaquismo - Prevención y control
Política de salud
Profesionales de la salud
Rights
openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 2.5 Colombia (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CO)
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Summary:ABSTRACT: Tobacco consumption is one of the leading preventable causes of illness and death in the world so the health professionals have a remarkable role in its prevention and control. Medicine and nursing schools must evaluate the training in this subject in the basic curriculum, as well as provide habit cessation aide to smoker students. The result will be physicians and nurses committed to actively participate against tobacco smoking, accomplishing the model role society demands from them. A revision of global and national scope on the problem of tobacco addiction in the general population and among doctors and nurses (professional and students) is presented as well as the anti-tobacco policies issued by the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Social Protection of Colombia. Finally, a reflection is proposed about the question if health professionals are being well trained to face this epidemic.